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Exposure vs Vulnerability Management: Is There Actually a Difference?

In this exclusive fireside chat, Seemplicity CPO Ravid Circus and SANS instructor Jonathan Risto break down this critical distinction and why mastering it is vital as AI rapidly reshapes the cybersecurity threat landscape. Here’s a summary of what they covered. If you’ve been in security for any length of time, you’ve probably wondered whether exposure management is just vulnerability management with a fresh coat of paint.

Emerging Threat: (CVE-2026-48172) LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Privilege Escalation to Root

CVE-2026-48172 is an incorrect privilege assignment flaw in the LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin that allows any authenticated cPanel user to execute arbitrary scripts as root. The bug sits in the plugin's lsws.redisAble function, which can be invoked through the standard cPanel JSON API to run code with elevated privileges instead of the calling user's own. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v4.0 base score of 10.0 (Critical).

Continuous Offensive Security: The Line We've Been Walking

AI Pentesting is having a moment. Well, several moments, actually. Every other week, another vendor announces something, or another LLM-driven pentesting tool tops some benchmark on a target nobody's heard of, another deck claims a new "gold standard" being disrupted, at long last... It's been busy.

FortiClient EMS Exploited via CVE-2026-35616 to Deliver EKZ Infostealer Disguised as a Fortinet Patch

In May 2026, Arctic Wolf observed a cluster of malicious activity affecting endpoints managed by FortiClient Endpoint Management Server (EMS). The malicious payload was disguised as a fake Fortinet endpoint patch, but it was actually a credential stealer. We named this payload EKZ Infostealer, based on internal symbol names extracted from decrypted code.

NGINX Under Active Attack: CVE-2026-42945 and CVE-2026-9256 Put Your Infrastructure at Risk

NGINX administrators are facing back-to-back emergency patch cycles. Within days of each other, two critical heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities were disclosed in the same NGINX component, both capable of crashing worker processes and enabling remote code execution on systems without ASLR. If your organization runs NGINX in any capacity, these need immediate attention.

Beyond the Chatbot: Why Your AI Agents are Your Newest (and Most Vulnerable) Colleagues

The era of "typing into a box" is over. For years, we viewed artificial intelligence as a digital assistant—a sophisticated autocomplete tool that waited for human input. But according to Martin Kraemer, KnowBe4’s CISO Advisor for Europe and the Middle East, that dynamic has shifted. We have moved from asking AI questions to giving AI jobs. In a recent deep-dive webinar, Martin explored the transition from AI tools to AI agents.

CVE-2026-9082: Critical Drupal SQL Injection Vulnerability Affects PostgreSQL Deployments

A highly critical SQL injection vulnerability in Drupal core has raised concerns across organizations running PostgreSQL-backed Drupal environments. Tracked as CVE-2026-9082, the vulnerability affects Drupal’s database abstraction layer and can be exploited remotely without authentication. The vulnerability was disclosed through Drupal security advisory SA-CORE-2026-004 on May 20, 2026. CVE-2026-9082 is now under active exploitation.

Stored XSS Vulnerability in ntfy

In May 2026, security researchers at Astra identified a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in the SVG attachment preview function of nfty, affecting versions up to 2.22.0. Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is a vulnerability that allows attackers to inject and permanently execute malicious scripts within a web application. If exploited, the threat actor could perform actions on behalf of the victim.